iart 08 walking

Question 1

Walking and Moving

Answer 1

Focus: Soundwalks, Soundmaps,
Soundscapes, Land Art, Public Art:
movement through and participation in works of art. Also, movement away from the museum, to other venues, places, etc. Movement away from passive audience, toward active participants/makers.

Question 2

ART OUTDOORS

Answer 2

How does art outdoors engage with its surroundings?
How is art outdoors experienced?
What is the ‘public’ of public art?

Question 3

Land Art, Earthworks, and Environmental art

Answer 3

What is the role of the artist?
What is the artwork?
Who owns the artwork?
What is the exhibition space?
What is the experience of the viewer?

Question 4

Robert Smithson’s

Answer 4

Spiral Jetty (1970)

Question 5

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Answer 5

Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95
Valley Curtain, Rifle Colorado, 1970-72
The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005

Question 6

The Gates

Answer 6

Central Park, New York City (1979-2005)

Question 7

Public Art

Answer 7

Art in public places, accessible to all
Parks
Plazas (public buildings and office buildings)
Libraries
Universities and schools
Office buildings

Question 8

– Hilde Hein

Answer 8

“public art … in the traditional sense …occupies public space and memorializes a public event, and in the current sense … questions the meaning of that space and that event and draws
the public into intelligent discourse with it”

Question 9

Public Art Issues

Answer 9

Place:
Where is it?
What is the relation between the site and the art?
Support:
Who pays for it?
Content:
What is it about?
Who decides what it looks like?
Audience:
Who is it for?
What is the experience of viewing public art?
What kinds of discussions emerge around public art?

Question 10

OU Percent for Art

Answer 10

“Brick – I Want to Become Architecture”
by Allan and Ellen Wexler
Adams Hall

“Truisms”
by Jenny Holzer
Gordy Hall

“Input”
by Maya Lin
Bicentennial Park

Through the State’s Percent For Art program administered by the Ohio Arts Council, 1 percent of funding for public buildings that cost $4 million or more in state money is set aside for the acquisition, commissioning and installation of public art.

Question 11

Public Art Controversies

Answer 11

Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc (1981)

Question 12

Sound as Public Art

Answer 12

Untitled Sounding Sculpture

Henry Bertoia, 1975

Question 13

Max Neuhaus’ Times Square (1977)

Answer 13

Proposed 1973, extant 1977-1992, reinstated May 22, 2002

Question 14

Monuments and Memorials

Answer 14

“What is a memorial’s purpose?” – Maya Lin

Question 15

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Answer 15

(Maya Lin, 1981)

Question 16

“The Vietnam Veterans Memorial manages to
work as public art both in the traditional sense
that it occupies public space and memorializes a public event, and in the current sense that it questions the meaning of that space and that event and draws the public into intelligent discourse with it”

Answer 16

Hilde Hein

Question 17

Maya Lin

Answer 17

Wave Field, 1995
Mac World, 2009
Atlas Landscape, 2009

Question 18

Ohio University Bicentennial Park

Maya Lin’s Input (2004)

Answer 18

helped out

Question 19

Ann Hamilton (1956-)

Answer 19

• Born in Lima, Ohio
• Teaches at OSU
• Installation, Textiles, Sculpture

Question 20

Hildegard Westerkamp:

Soundwalking

Answer 20

“A soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose

is listening to the environment.”

Question 21

Examples of soundwalk places:

Answer 21

-Home
-Beach
-Doctor’s Office
-Grocery Store
-City Street
-Airport
“ Wherever we go we will give our ears priority”

Question 22

Examples of an Athens soundwalk:

Answer 22

• Alone or with a friend
• Be silent (no phone, no talking, no texting)
• Walk for an exact given amount of time (ex. 10 minutes)
• Example: walk from this building to Court St., then to the green, through the library, into Baker, etc.
• When done:
• What did you hear?
• Make a list

Question 23

What did you hear?

Answer 23

• Interesting rhythms?
• Highest pitch? Lowest?
• Regular beats?
• Intermittent or discrete sounds?
• Rustles
• Bangs
• Swishes
• Thuds

Question 24

Hildegard Westerkamp:

Soundwalking

Answer 24

“Start by listening to the sounds of your body while moving. They are closest to you and establish the first dialogue between you and the environment. If you can hear even the
quietest of these sounds you are moving through an environment which is scaled on human proportions. In other words, with your voice or your footsteps for instance, you are “talking” to your environment which then in turn responds by giving your sounds a specific acoustic quality.”

Question 25

R. Murray Schafer:

The Soundscape

Answer 25

Soundscape: “Any acoustical field of study”

• EVENTS HEARD, and not objects seen.
• “Noise pollution”

Question 26

R. Murray Schafer:
The Soundscape
Soundscape: “Any acoustical field of study”

Answer 26

Examples:

• Musical composition
• Radio program
• Acoustic environment